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Data Provider
Ethnologisches Museum Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Abelam
Object type
Back jewellery
Dimensions
Height: 31,5 cm
Depth: 2,5 cm
Width: 7,5 cm
Weight: 0,08 kg
Material/Technique
Tooth (boar), Plant fibre , Pigment, Snails (cowries, Cypraea moneta), Snails (Nassa callosa), Plant material
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VI 48619

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    around 1960
    where
    Melanesia
    Northeast New Guinea
    Maprik
    Jame
    Papua New Guinea
    who
    Rikimbekus - Makers
    Abelam
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Purchase from Gerd Koch 1967
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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